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Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 26, 2024 in The Vietnam Project, Writing | 0 comments

The Vietnam Project, 2025

I just got great news that the Community Arts Partnership in Ithaca has given me a Strategic Opportunity Stipend for travel to Vietnam in March, 2025, so I can do...

Posted by jonfrankel on Apr 2, 2024 in The Vietnam Project, Writing | 0 comments

Hodoor

The HodoorThe Winter Spring Hotel, which still comes up in an internet search under the Henry Iris name, had a small lobby with a couple of chairs, dimly lit by ticking...

Posted by jonfrankel on Jun 8, 2021 in Blogh, Books, The Vietnam Project | 0 comments

HELL IN A VERY SMALL PLACE

The Vietnamese War: Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta 1930-1975, by David W. P. Elliot. M.E. Sharp, Armonk, NY, 2003. I just finished David W. P....

Posted by jonfrankel on Dec 16, 2020 in Blogh, The Vietnam Project, Writing | 0 comments

go while you can

This is a video of an Ithaca Spring Writes virtual event I did in late November, Mary Lorson’s Of Course. She reads and then I read, about 20 minutes in. My piece...

Posted by jonfrankel on Oct 17, 2017 in Books, The Vietnam Project | 0 comments

LOST IN TRANSLATION

LOST IN TRANSLATION Vietnam: A Combat Advisor’s Story By Martin J. Dockery Presidio Press, 2003 Martin Dockery, a lawyer by training, has in Lost in Translation...

Posted by jonfrankel on Sep 8, 2017 in Books, The Vietnam Project | 0 comments

Hell in a Very Small Place

HELL IN A VERY SMALL PLACE By Bernard Fall Da Capo Press; Reprint edition (April 2002) Although I have largely abandoned my researches into the history of Vietnam, the...

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This website is dedicated to my poetry and fiction. The novels, The Man Who Can't Die, GAHA: Babes of the Abyss and The Isle of Dogs are published by Whiskey Tit Press. Writing as Buzz Callaway, I'm the author of Specimen Tank and The Last Bender. Specimen Tank is published by Manic D Press. The Last Bender is published on this website. Currently I'm working on The Vietnam Project, a travel memoir about Vietnam and its long history. I also write book reviews and personal essays about food, art and culture. I live in upstate New York with my family and am a retired stacks manager.